How to Use ridicule in a Sentence

ridicule

1 of 2 noun

• She didn't show anyone her artwork for fear of ridicule.
• Saying the wrong thing will bring anger, scorn and ridicule.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
• And the disdain for and ridicule of Utah from around the country lives on, too.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Nov. 2022
• The ridicule only grew louder when Gaetz pulled the same stunt in the next round and the result was the same.
  — Jonathan Karl, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• But the live-in aspect of the code also received its share of ridicule.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Those in the latter group are easy targets for our ridicule.
  — Danielle Lindemann, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2022
• The ad was met with ridicule by some media outlets in Ukraine.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
• The hapless humans in this movie are more than enough to soak up our ridicule.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
• DiCaprio has managed to stay above such ridicule, at least on a large scale.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
• Right now, she might be required to bear the burden of customer ridicule with grace.
  — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
• Arizona hasn't always made the news as an object of ridicule.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
• The complaint was met with ridicule from other users on Twitter.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
• The student also carried a Bible with him at school, which was the source of much ridicule, according to the suit.
  — Fox News, 2 Mar. 2022
• When Spears shaved her head at the peak of her career, she was met with ridicule rather than compassion.
  — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2022
• Once again, based on the narrative being spun from the middle of the country, the league set itself up for ridicule.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
• The effort caused an uproar and led to national ridicule.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2022
• But the comments drew ridicule on social media and stories in news outlets all over the world.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
• The story brought the family much ridicule and showed them in a new light, one that was very unpleasant for them.
  — Adrienne Gaffney, ELLE, 12 Nov. 2022
• Rohrwacher also likes to integrate constants that are dear to her in her films: that of waste and that of ridicule.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• Mulvaney said she's been followed, faced public ridicule and has even been scared to leave her house.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 5 July 2023
• No one with an Android phone was safe from ridicule when iPhone users were attempting to use the feature in a group chat.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 22 Nov. 2021
• For centuries, obesity has been a focus of scorn and ridicule.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2023
• The film doesn’t shy away from the ridicule Barbie has received ever since she was introduced in 1959.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
• To be sure, crass and hateful public figures are worthy of ridicule.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Please don't get me wrong, this article is not in any way meant to ridicule or demean research such as this.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• To make Trump an object of ridicule then was edgy; to satirize him now is both obvious and not enough.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• The statue drew even more ridicule on public display outside the Capitol.
  — Ronald G. Shafer, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Anderson and her then-husband, Tommy Lee, were the first celebrities to face such ridicule.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• She was subjected to ridicule by comedians and a top soap opera star, who used a racial slur.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The idea was met with ridicule even from some of Trump’s most vociferous supporters.
  — Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2022

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ridicule

2 of 2 verb

• The other kids ridiculed him for the way he dressed.
• They ridiculed all of her suggestions.
• The author goes on to ridicule and scorn Leno for his comments.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Nov. 2019
• Barkley has ridiculed Davis for being injury prone in the past.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• To be clear, this isn’t a place to ridicule, but rather gather and revere.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
• To ridicule this isn’t to deny that there are real threats.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• Willy and his boys ridicule Bernard for being a studious nerd.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• Fox News picked up the story in the US and both media outlets were ridiculed for it.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 22 Oct. 2019
• It’s one thing to ridicule a state or to make claims against its residents.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
• He was ridiculed for his appearance and laughed it off.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Two message threads between the woman and her male cousin seemed to ridicule Bauer.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• Oh, god, being ridiculed for stepping outside of the house.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2023
• Jesus does not need to spend much time on those who openly ridicule God.
  — Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• Re-signing Ward: Sometimes the best moves are the ones that are ridiculed on social media.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• The Lebanese, no strangers to chaos, quickly found ways to ridicule their reality.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Like fans, and stuff like that, could portray him that way and just ridicule him in the media and stuff like that, social media.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• The enormous, nearly life-sized painting was ridiculed by critics and the public.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
• The site shouted things the media told women to hide, and ridiculed the things the media told us were important.
  — Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• None of this is to ridicule Putin’s account of Russian history.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• The episodes don’t judge or ridicule the people who become entangled in these schemes.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• As a teenager in the ‘70s, I was sometimes perceived to be a gay man and pushed about or ridiculed accordingly.
  — Mckenzie Wark, Time, 24 June 2023
• Trump’s speeches, yet most of them could reject it, or even share it in order to deride or ridicule it.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2021
• In response to a video of a few seconds of her dancing, Lizzo was condemned and ridiculed online.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2019
• Trans people are constantly ridiculed or laughed at or stared at.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
• Neff posted to the thread, which racked up dozens of comments as users ridicule the woman, as recently as June 28.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 10 July 2020
• Landry Shamet has long been ridiculed, criticized and slammed by many Phoenix Suns fans on social media.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2023
• What authority does this straight white man have to ridicule a woman's weight?
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• In 1920, an editorial in the New York Times sharply ridiculed Goddard's idea.
  — Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• Shops are calling on people to stop the practice too, and social-media memes ridicule the hoarders.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2020
• Amazon was widely ridiculed for its failure to court New York politicians.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024